Fantastic New Book – Travelling with Mr Turner
A perceptive, witty, often tongue-in-cheek book, this is a fascinating personal perspective on the history of Triumph Motorcycles seen through the eyes of two different social eras.
When lawyer Nigel Winter takes a few days off to follow in the tyre-tracks of Edward Turner, on his way from Land's End to John O'Groats, he finds far, far more than he expects. For Mr Turner designed the Triumph motorcycle that powered Marlon Brando to fame in The Wild One, and on which Steve McQueen tried to jump the wire in The Great Escape. Along the road to John O'Groats, the author riding his modern ...